Tencent Leads Bid to Unwind Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal
Tencent is in talks to become Manus’s largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta’s $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered the deal undone.
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Tencent is in talks to become Manus’s largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta’s $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered the deal undone.
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, alleging former employees now at OpenAI stole confidential hardware information to build its first AI device. OpenAI denies it.
OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to the public on July 9 after clearing US government review far faster than the 30-day window the rules envisioned.
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a roughly 5% stake, worth about $43 billion, to seed a public wealth fund and ease mounting political pressure in Washington.
As Washington limits Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s top models on security grounds, critics warn the restrictions are handing momentum to Chinese open-weight rivals like GLM-5.2.
GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI’s most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.
Google AI Overviews liability sets a precedent as a German court rejects the click-to-verify defense, a ruling that could reach ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown, the first US export control on an LLM, has Carney and EU lawmakers pushing to reduce reliance on American AI.
Anthropic has disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 globally after a U.S. government export-control directive restricted access to the models for foreign nationals, prompting the company to challenge the decision publicly.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging binding, FAA-style safety testing for frontier AI models, marking a shift from the company’s earlier focus on transparency.